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The Center for Community-Based Research

The Center for Community-Based Research at Dana-Farber develops innovative ways to lower cancer risk by working with community groups and organizations. The Center uses the power of the community to study the factors that play a role in improving the prevention, early detection, and treatment of cancer. Through this research and its dissemination of cancer prevention messages, CCBR can help build a healthier community.

The Center for Community-Based Research

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
44 Binney Street
(617) 632-2576
ccbrinfo@dfci.harvard.edu

Dana-Farber/BWCC partners with community on colon cancer screening

Actor Terrence Howard and a community member

The program, dubbed Open Doors to Health, is training "peer leaders" in Boston-area low-income housing complexes to work with residents on reducing their risk for colorectal cancer and getting screened for the disease at local hospitals.
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Cancer Health Disparities Videos

Screenshot from Karen Emmons video

Karen Emmons, deputy director of the Center for Community- Based Research, and Karen Burns White, deputy associate director of the Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities at Dana-Farber/ Havard Cancer Center, discuss some of the causes of cancer health disparities and the ways in which Dana-Farber is working to reduce the gap.